Hat-fastener.



E. E. mbomgmus.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-3i. 1915.

"Patented June 20, 1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cc|., WASHINGTON, n. c.

A GFFICE.

EDWARD E. nrconnivins, 0F SILVIS, ILLINOIS.

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1916.

Application filed August 31, 1915. 'Serial No. 48,324.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, EDWARD E. NIGODE- MUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Silvis, in the county of Rock Island and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to the toilet, and more especially to hat fasteners; and the object of the same is to produce a pin structure permanently carried within the crown of the hat and operated by a handle projecting through the side of the crown and having a knob so that it simulates the head of the ordinary hat'pin. This object is carried out in the, manner hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as shown in the accompanying drawings wherein I c Figure 1 is a sectional view through an ordinary sailor hat showing this fastener stitched therein with its pins in the position they assume when they engage in the wearers hair. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the fastener on an enlarged scale removed from the hat, the pins in this View being shown in the position they occupy when they are withdrawn from the hair as in the act of putting on or taking off the hat. Fig. 3 is plan view of the fastener'with the pins in the same position as shown in Fig. 1, the handle in this instance being shown as projecting inthe opposite dire'c tion.

I have illustrated the invention as applied to an ordinary sailor hat having a brim B and acrown C and when these hats are worn by ladies they usually have a lining indicated at L. The prevailing means for attaching such a hat to the head is to run the point of a hat pin transversely through the crown and lining, and engage it with the hair, the result being that the head at one end and the point at the other end of the pin areexposed on opposite sides of the crown. This custom has itsfobjections in the puncturing of the crown, the fact that the pin point is sometimes pushed into the scalp, and the danger that the projecting and unprotected point affords.

In the present invention I make useof a framework member, preferably of w re, stitched inside the crown above the lining if there be one, and entirely out of sight; and on this framework is rotatably mounted a second member, also preferably of wire,

which includes two 'arcuate pins capable of being moved in their own arcs and projected through the-liningand engaged with the hair; while a thirdmember serves as a han-- die and is connected'at one end with the second member and has its other end projecting slidably through the side of the crown and carrying a knob or ornament on its extremity to simulate the head of an ordinary hat pin.

My preferred manner of carrying out this ldea is as follows: The skeleton framework may well be made of a single piece of wire I I whose center'is left straight to constitute an axle-1, and at each end of the axle the wire is bentat point' 2 into a horizontal stretch 8, then bent downward as at 1 into a foot 5, then carried inward in a horizontal stretch 6 and finally engaged with the axlel it at the point 7; and the two points 7 at the ends of the wire from which this frame: work is made are preferably separated slightly so that the handle (described be- I low) may play freely between them. The other member of this hat fastener rocks on the skeleton framework just described, and by preference it also is made of a single piece of wire. Thelatter is bent at each end I into an arcuate pin 10, one end of which is pointed as at .11 and the other end of which is formed into a spoke 12 extending thence inward to the center of the arc, looped loosely as at 13 into eyes embracing the axle I hear itsbend 2, and then carried over the axle on a'line oblique thereto in a bail 14 which has a' loop 15 midway between the two pins and'at the center of the stretch of wire from which this member is made. When the parts stand as seen in Fig. '3, the bail 1 1 is on the opposite side of the aXle from the two stretches 6 of the framework and the pins underlie said framework as seen Coiled on each half of the axle between the points 2 and 7 is a spring 20, one end of which is engaged at 21 with thev stretch 6 of the framework while the other end is engaged at 22 with the bail 14;; and the ten- I I ornamental button or knob 27 which simu lates the head of the ordinary hat pin. This knob may be made removable, and applied to the outer end of the handle after the device has been put in place.

In operation the framework is stitched into the crown or otherwise fastened thereto in about the position shown, and the parts stand normally as seen in Fig. 1. When now the hat is put onto the head, the operator draws on the knob 27 with the result that the rocking member swings around the axle of the framework where it is hinged thereon by the two eyes 13, and the arcuate pins are retracted so that their points 11 are drawn backward and upward through the lining L (if there be a lining) to the position shown in Fig. 2. The hat is then put on, and by releasing the knob or by bearing the same inward, the pins are advanced through part of the circle in which they stand and through the hair and restored to the position shown in Fig. 1 where they are held under the tension of the springs 20. The hat is now firmly fastened in place, and the fastener cannot become accidentally detached because the springs are yet under some tension which is resisted where the handle 24 crosses the axle 1. However, it is possible, as shown in Fig. 3,

'to have the handle 24 lead in the opposite direction and out through the other side of the crown, but in that case the knob would have tobe pushed instead of pulled in the application of the device as just described. I have also made use of this view to show how the feet5, which in Figs. 1 and 2 are simple angles, might be amplified or given various shapes so as to adapt them to other hats than sailors or, in fact, so that they could be bent by the purchaser to adapt them to almost any hat. Attention is directed to the fact that the points 11 of the pins are formed by beveling off the wire on the outer side of the arc-shaped pinbodies. This is purposely done so that when the pins are projected through the hair the bevels will strike the scalp and the extreme points will not enter it.

What I claim is:

1. In a hat fastener, the combination with a framework adapted to be fastened within the hat crown and including in its structure a horizontal axle; of a rocking memher having eyes rotatably mounted on said axle, spokes radiating from the eyes, and pins projecting from the outer ends of said spokes and struck on arcs around said axle, a bail connecting said eyes, and a handle leading from the bail through the crown to the exterior thereof.

2. In a hat fastener, the combination with a. framework adapted to be fastened within the hat crown and including in its structure a horizontal axle; of a rocking member having eyes rotatably mounted on said axle, radial spokes, arcuate pins projecting from said eyes around said axle, a bail whose ends extend from said eyes inward obliquely to the axle and whose center has a loop, and a handle slidably mounted through the side of the hat crown and having a loop at its inner end engaging that on the bail and a bend adjacent its loop to pre vent the loops from cramping, and a knob at its outer end.

3. In a hat fastener, the combination with a framework comprising a horizontal axle bent at its ends into stretches, thence formed into feet adapted for attachment to the inside of the hat crown, and finally formed into horizontal stretches connected at their extremities with said axle; of a rocking member comprising arcuate pins, a spoke leading inward from one end of each pin and looped into an eye loosely embracing said axle near its end, a bail connecting said eyes, a handle leading from the center of the bail whereby this. member may be rocked on the axle, and a spring coiled on the latter with one extremity engaging one of said stretches and the other engaging the bail.

4. In a hat fastener, the combination with a skeleton framework including a horizontal axle, two stretches projecting horizontally therefrom at spaced points near the center of the axle, and depending feet on these stretches adapted to be stitched to the interior of a hat crown; of a rocking member comprising a bail, eyes at its ends rotatably mounted on said axle, arcuate pins carried by said eyes, springs coiled on the axle and each having one extremity connected with one of said stretches and the other with said bail, and a handle connected with the center of the bail and extend ing thence over the axle between said points and through one side of the hat crown.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD E. NICODEMUS.

lVitnesses: I

N. L. COLLLAMER, RoBT. T. LANG.

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